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TEACHing

Jayne's teaching practice is varied and wide-ranging. She loves to teach what she is passionate about, whether that is theatre, calming breathing exercises or the art of teaching itself.

Higher Education:

Professor of Performance Teaching, Guildhall School of Music and Drama (present)

Jayne is currently employed as a Professor on the PGCert Performance Teaching course at Guildhall School of Music and Drama. The Masters-level course focuses on the pedagogy of performance and equips performance teachers with the skills and theory to develop excellent teaching practice.

Specialist teaching areas include:

- Inclusive curriculum design

- Differentiation, inclusion and English as an additional language

- Motivation and growth mindset

- Safeguarding

Assistant Professor, Head of BA Theatre Arts, Utah State University

Teaching Applied Theatre, Drama in the Community, Playscript Analysis, Methods of Teaching Drama K-6, Theatre for Young Audiences, and student teacher clinical superivsion.

Managing recruitment, retention, and academic advising for BA and Minor Theatre Arts Programs.

Lecturer, Department of Theatre, University of Bristol

Teaching on BA Theatre and Performance Studies course:

Applied Theatre unit: Planning and delivering workshops on working with older adults / intergenerational arts projects and theatre and creative arts for health and well-being
Politics of Performance unit: Delivering seminars on agitprop theatre, theatre and activism, Brechtian theatre practices, theatre as a mechanism of soft-power, intersection between theatre and pedagogy and participatory practices
Marking and moderating undergraduate practical and written assessments

Visiting Lecturer and Placement host, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama

Jayne was a visiting lecturer on the MA Applied Theatre course at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama delivering seminars on, 'Working with different groups of young people; creating a safe space' and 'Applied Theatre and the Panopticon space.' She hosted and mentored BA Drama and Applied Theatre students and MA Applied Theatre students who worked with young-people to help develop their confidence and build aspirations.

School and community based:

Jayne originally qualified as a secondary school Drama teacher in 2007. Since then she has developed a proven track record of outstanding teaching that adds value to young people's learning. Her teaching and leadership is firmly rooted in creating a space where young people can feel empowered as active learners. As well as undertaking management roles as a Head of Department and Head of Faculty, she is also an experienced teacher trainer having worked alongside Middlesex University and the Institute of Education as a Subject Mentor to deliver teacher training to beginning teachers.

In 2018 Jayne set up Stomping Space to provide well-being, nature and arts experiences for young-people and their families in her local community. She is a qualified Baby Massage and Infant and Pre-School Yoga teacher, has completed Bushcraft and Ecology courses and regularly delivers forest-school inspired activities and outdoor holiday clubs in her local area.